List of U.S. Open Champions and their scores
2012 and 2013 the last times the winner was in black numbers. 2010 at Pebble, it was the very unusual green number. 2006 and 2007, it was +5! A smattering of such scores have won in the past; most famously the stretch from 1969 to 1975 produced five winners who were not under par.
I’m nowhere near the student of the game you are, but what surprises me from that list is how low so many of the scores are, and how few were between +1 and -2.
I would wager (and possibly lose?) that at least half of the years a score of E after 3 would get you into one of the final 3 pairings or so. (But I’m not saying that to give you another research assignment! ;))
Man, some big names shot some big numbers. Wonder when’s the last time Spieth got a double AND a triple in one round! Tiger got 2 doubles and a triple. And Rory got 3 doubles.
But I didn’t hear anyone really complaining.
Windy Misty morning at Shinny on Friday. Scores should be a little better today, but just a little.
Cut is looking like 149, should that be the number
That means Tiger and Spieth have to shoot 71 or better (Tiger is -1 after 7 holes)
Rory has to shoot 70
Phil has to shoot 72
Day-um, DJ. Gonna drive me crazy over the weekend.
Careful walking down stairs. Ask for a ruling before grounding your club. :smack:
How long will it be before the networks quit focusing so much on Tiger? I understand Spieth since he’s been relevant recently, but I’d rather watch the 2008 Tiger than have so much focus on him in 2018
Can’t believe how Poulter threw up all over himself on 17 from the fairway with a 7-iron in! :eek:
Then yanked the same club on the next hole!
Someone said it well - DJ is just one hole away from letting everyone else back into it. I thought he had it in the bag at Pebble…
Funny how you always seem to see Charlie Hoffman’s name on the leaderboards of the big events (at least through the first 3 rounds!)Does Jordan impress anyone else as a bit of a whiner? Yeah, I imagine he is just showing his emotions.
And as a fierce competitor he expects to make every shot. But something about his facial expressions/body language after a missed putt or mediocre chip turns me off.
Going to be interesting to see/hear the commentators try to create interest about some of the guys at the top of the leaderboard, with so many of their faves missing the cut.
Let me say again how much it surprises me that we can’t get more interest in golf threads around here! 
When the PGA pays them to quit whining about how no one will be interested in professional golf until Tiger starts winning big again.
One of the strangest sequences ever seen in a major championship:
On the 13th green Phil Mickelson rolls his bogey putt way past the hole. He then runs after it and hits it back toward the hole before it had come to rest. A couple more (legal) putts get the ball into the hole, but he winds up with a score of 10: 8 actual strokes and two penalty strokes.
Just seen clips of that - that’s surely an insta-DQ?
No, why? You get charged two penalty strokes for hitting a ball in motion. I’m presuming that Phil thought that, if he let the ball continue rolling, he’d have a tough time getting it back to a playable spot on the green in that many added strokes. Or, maybe he just thought, “F*** it, I’m done with this stuff.” 
Not for Mr. FIGJAM. 
Heh, I had to run an errand, and I got back just in time to hear Azinger say that Phil had been so frustrated all day that he just snapped on 13. So I naturally assumed that he had beaten someone to death with his 3-iron. Kind of disappointing to learn he only pulled a John Daly.
Since Tiger missed the cut, I was rooting for Phil, but now I guess I’ll just have to wait till next year.
Aye, if done accidentally. Phil’s situation isn’t really accidental!
Ha, yes. I suspect he’s not the only one thinking that
Says the guy who, in the Masters thread, talked about how Tiger fans want to fellate him. Gee, why wouldn’t everybody want to discuss golf with you?
Maybe when the ratings stop doubling or tripling when they do it.
Tiger doesn’t even know you exist, Tony.
The R&A must be wondering how to set up Carnoustie for The Open in a few weeks time. They’ll be torn between “OK Shinnecock, call that difficult?” and “OK, maybe not that difficult this time. People do like to see birdies”
The capital of Djibouti is Djibouti.
Phil has apparently said that he did this tactically, because he believed the ball would roll off the green and leave him a worse option than a 2-stroke penalty.
I find it hard to believe the USGA wishes to endorse the idea of tactical penalties like this. I’ll be a bit surprised if we hear noting further about this.
That whiny little bitch should have been DQ’d on the spot.